Be careful you don't catch a virus from networking

I came across this animation video, It's a video that was uploaded by esayteam ( January 2009). I clicked on the link and found that www.esay-uk.com is aa e-commerce shopping website with a social marketplace where you can log on, create a profile and be part of forums.

The video has a little intro:
Are you addicted to social networking? then be careful not to max out and be careful who you interact with, you never know what you may catch.

The video is basically a short skit to encourage awareness of 'practicing safe shopping online' which is a play on the common known phrase' practicing safe sex'.

It's a funny little video set at a gynecologists surgery, it uses social networking sites and social networking tools such as' poking' on facebook as a form of STD or virus that may catch by not practicing safe online shopping'

I think its a good way of using a common underlying issues of sexually transmitted disease and and using this theme to reiterate the danger of social networking ( which is also pretty common in the younger generation) and putting a humorous twist on it.

Stop motion

The PEN story is a stop motion animation, OLUMPUS wrote :

This is the PEN Story in stop motion. We shot 60.000 pictures, developed 9.600 prints and shot over 1.800 pictures again. No post production! Thanks to all the stop motion artists who inspired us. We hope you enjoy :-)

The reason I'm posting this is because I didn't really know what it is was, but I've noticed it has become increasingly popular advertising tool especially for large companies.
It's something that I now really want to try as it is so effective and you can use stop motion is many different ways.
I just need to dedicate myself to creating a meaningful stop motion production.

Below are a few other cool stop motion productions that caught my eye:

8 bit trip (music video):






PSP commercial

Animator v.s Animation

This is a great and quirky animation, it's so inventive is must has take ages but it is very effective and extremely funny!

Quirky

Quirky is a company that basically helps make product ideas into reality. It can be any product that someone feels passionate about they encourage you to submit idea and urge you to give your opinions on produccts they are about to release.

It was founded by 22-year-old entrepreneur-in-chief, Ben . He states:
the solution to bringing virtually any product idea to life and putting it into the hands of consumers. Part process, part platform...we're pretty sure quirky will change the way people think about product development forever.

Take a look at the website: